OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Policy & Administration is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The ‘New Five Giants’—Conceptualising the challenges facing societal progress in the 21st century	73
Perceptions of Poverty and Policy Preferences: The Contribution of Q Methodology	27
Reforming Long‐Term Care Provision and Work in Post‐Pandemic Times: Scope and Drivers of Policy Change in the Spanish Decentralised System	26
Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2022	23
How does immigration affect welfare support in Korea?	23
Jesse Hajer & John Loxley (2021). Social service, private gain: The political economy of social impact bonds, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0328‐4 (cloth),	20
Fertility‐based employment discrimination and family policy: Evidence from a field experiment	17
Understanding migrants' attitudes towards state pension: The role of length of stay and settlement intention	17
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion	16
Austerity from the left: Social democratic parties in the shadow of the great recession. By BjörnBremer, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2023). £83.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9780192872210	15
The politics of social policies in Portugal: Different responses in times of crises	14
Beveridge, Bevan and institutional change in the UK welfare state	14
User‐Centred Design in Child Welfare: Importance of an Anti‐Racism Lens	14
Social investment, labour market participation and public debt sustainability: An empirical analysis of European countries	13
Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme	12
Dualisation, education and the knowledge economy: Comparing Germany and South Korea	12
Upskilling as integration policy: Making the most of refugees' human capital in a context of skill shortage	12
Looking beyond the workplace: Trade unions and the politics of poverty in Italy	12
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Handbook on social protection systemsby EstherSchüring, MarkusLoewe (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. ISBN: 9781839109102; £375.00 (Hardback)	11
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?	11
Social security, full employment and voluntary action: The three pillars of William Beveridge's welfare society	11
Social risks and active social citizenship—A cross‐national comparison of long‐term care policies for older people in European welfare states	11
Verification of policy information and citizen attitudes toward government under COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from survey experiment in South Korea	10
Welfare state regimes and social policy resistance to fiscal consolidations	10

Revisiting the role of social work in the substantial realization of social rights in local welfare systems: Transforming and changing the rules of the institutional game?	10
Food insecurity: The resilient, but “silent poverty” perspectives of older ethnic minority individuals within UK communities	10
Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze?	10
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection: Insights from Zambia	9
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Social policy: A critical and intersectional analysis By Fiona WilliamsMickCarpenterPolicy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781509540396; £18.99 (pbk)	9
Frontline social service as a battlefield: Insights from street‐level bureaucrats' interactions with violent clients	9
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Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation	9
Screening for Asylum at Airports: The Implementation of the ‘Manifestly Unfounded’ Filter in France and Germany, 1980–2005	8
The Wage Stop and Restricting Benefit Income in the United Kingdom: Discretion, Wages and Hardship	8
Benefits Conditionality in the United Kingdom: Is It Common, and Is It Perceived to Be Reasonable?	8
Immigration and social assistance: Evidence from the Norwegian welfare state	8
Predictors of satisfaction with digital follow‐up in Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration: A sequential mixed‐methods study	8
Social policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi‐pillar pension reform	8
The industrialisation thesis, revisited: Understanding welfare expansion in China through social expenditure data (2000–2019)	7
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Justifications for not sanctioning welfare clients: Social workers' implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Poland	7
The impact of universal credit rollout on homelessness assistance need in Scottish local authorities	7
The Use and Impact of Well‐Being Metrics on Policymaking: Developers' and Users' Perspectives in Scotland and Italy	7
“You didn't ask, so you don't know”: Information and administrative burden in social benefit claims	7
How to Fix the Welfare State? Some Ideas for Better Social Services. By PaulSpicker, Policy Press, 2022, 162pp. £27.99	7
Beyond financial constraints: The politics of Irish health system reform in the aftermath of the great recession	7
Reconsidering policy, complexity, governance and the state. KateCrowley, JennyStewart, AdrianKay, and Brian W.HeadBristol: Policy Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781447333135; £26.99 (EPub)	6
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National health services of Western Europe: Challenges, reforms and future perspectives. By GuidoGiarelli, MikeSaks (Eds.), London: Routledge. 2024. £130.00; hardback. ISBN: 9780367689599	5
Fugitive coproduction: Conceptualising informal community practices in Scotland's hospitals	5
National charitable fundraising for the NHS, 1948–2023	5
‘Money anxiety’: Understanding HE students' experiences of the cost‐of‐living crisis	5
The Discretionary Power of Street‐Level Bureaucrats From the Perspective of Illusio	5
To Comply or Not to Comply, That Is the Question: The Street‐Level Implementation of Jurisprudence by Migration Officers	5
The Making of a Left‐Behind Class Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation. by FredPowell, MargaretScanlon, PatrickLeahy, HilaryJenkinson and	5
Christopher Deeming. Minimum income standards and reference budgets, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐5295‐2; pp 351	5
The rise of food charity across Europe. HannahLambie‐Mumford and TiinaSilvastiBristol: Policy Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781447347583; £26.99 (EPub)	5
Improving the Likelihood of Positive Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Considering Intersections Between Justice, Gender, and Trauma	5
Protected against all odds? A mixed‐methods study on the risk of welfare sanctions for immigrants in Germany	5
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TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states	5
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions: How Bad Documents, Gut Feelings, and Selective Intelligence Shape Border Control in Europe	4
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Moral framings in the Australian parliamentary debate on drug testing of welfare recipients	4
Introduction: 20 years of welfare reform in China (2000–2020): Challenges from developmentalism to COVID‐19	4
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Care earnings in the United States and 24 European countries: The role of social policy and labour market institutions	4
How Do Non‐Standard Work and Labour Market Policy Spending Shape Preferences for Training Versus Unemployment Benefits in Budgetary Trade‐Offs?	4
The Beveridge report 80 years on: ‘Squalor’ and housing—‘A true goliath’	4
Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship	4
Left partisan politics and pension privatisation at the crossroads of political legacy and contemporary politics (1980–2017)	4
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?	4
Information, reflection, and successful job search: A labor market policy experiment	4

Program Design to Ease Administrative Burden in Times of Crisis: An Evaluation of Two Emergency Aid Programs in Los Angeles	4
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The moral, the political and social licence in digitally‐driven family policy and intervention: Parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families	4
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Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £25	4
The politics of the welfare state in Turkey: How social movements and elite competition created a welfare state. By ErdemYörük, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2022. pp. 221. 29.25 USD (paper	4
Social rights in EU and its member states	3
Living with financial insecurity: Analysing the impact of the cost‐of‐living crisis on older ethnic minority people	3
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Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm	3
The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development	3
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Work and alienation in the platform economy. Amazon and the power of organisation. By SarrahKassem, Bristol University Press. 2023. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9781529226546	3
Framing Beveridge	3
Explaining Variation in Decision‐Making Authority for Care Managers in a Decentralised Welfare State	3
A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England: What was it meant to achieve?	3
Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south	3
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Welfare conditionality and policy contingencies of school‐allowance retractions in Sweden	3
Constrained ‘choices’: Optional familism and educational divides in work‐family arrangements	3
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Emergency welfare states in action: Social policy adaptations to COVID‐19 in the Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia	3
Crisis in the UK National Health Service: What does it mean, and what are the consequences?	3
Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises	3
Do you know to whom you pay your taxes? The case of decentralised Spain	3
The ‘two lives’ of Esping‐Andersen and the revival of a research programme: Gender equality, employment and redistribution in contemporary social policy	3
Exploring the politics of strain: Crime and welfare in remote Indigenous Australia	2
An ‘interface first’ bureaucracy: Interface design, universal credit and the digital welfare state	2
Decentring European governanceMarkBevirRyanPhillipsAbingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019, ISBN: 9780367661069; £36.99 (Pbk)	2
Moving Beyond Regulation: Cross‐Sectoral Coordination in Providing Holistic Care in For‐Profit Residential Homes for Disabled People	2
The Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on School‐to‐School Transitions. A Study of Lower Secondary School Graduates	2
Nordic earner‐carer politics: A comparative and historical analysis (1st edition). By Anne LiseEllingsæter, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024. £95 (hardback). ISBN: 9781802207071	2
Living Wages in Latin America: An Assessment of Disparities and a Stakeholder Roadmap for Action	2
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Ratings, rankings and managing numbers: Professionals' perspectives on user surveys in Swedish nursing home care	2
The divisive state of social policy: The ‘bedroom tax,’ austerity and housing insecurity by Kelly BogueBristol: Policy press, 2019. ISBN: 9781447350538; £60 (Hbk)	2
The culture of education regimes: Efficiency, equality and governance in education and social policy	2
A job trial subsidy for youth: Cheap labour or a screening device?	2
Does the unemployment trap still exist? The case of the Italian minimum income scheme	2
Women–state relations: The gendered politics of social protection provisioning in Zambia	2
Allowance or service: Public attitudes toward childcare‐related family policies in China	2
What Can Be Learned at the Intersection of Crisis Management and Administrative Burdens? Evidence From a Systematic Review of the Governance of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme During	2
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Social protection and state‐citizen relations: A review of the literature	2
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“I never planned for it”—Exploration of expectations about caring for older parents	2
Policy entrepreneurship at the street level: Understanding the effect of the individualNissimCohenCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108818865; £15 (Pbk)	2
Alternative targeting methods for social assistance programs: Evidence from Tunisia	2
A scooping review of Scandinavian studies of sick‐listed' and social insurance officers' experiences of their encounters'	2
Addressing hardship and climate change: Citizens' perceptions of costs of living, social inequalities and priorities for policy	2
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Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries	2
Welfare service reforms: Arab minority welfare bureau managers assess the outcomes	2
A path to professional capability: The Career Start Programme in Bulgaria as a strategy to youth development	2
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